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         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-08-15'>Monday, August 15, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln again writes to T. J. Turner about Adams case: "When I served 
notice on Logan I promised him that if he would name any attorney in 
the vicinity . . . to be present at the taking of the depositions, I 
would request you to notify him of the time and place, but he is gone 
off to the 'World's Fair' . . . [New York] without having named any."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A231' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas J. Turner</xref>, 15 August 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:201.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-08-17'>Wednesday, August 17, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln buys pole from Obed Lewis carriage shop.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-08-22'>Monday, August 22, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Register reports incorporation of town of Lincoln, 30 miles 
northeast of Springfield on Chicago &amp; Mississippi Railroad. "The 
town was named by the proprietors of whom our enterprising citizen, 
Virgil Hickox, is one, in honor of A. Lincoln, esq., the attorney of 
the Chicago and Mississippi Railroad Company."]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-08-24'>Wednesday, August 24, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln draws power of attorney for Virgil Hickox and John D. 
Gillette, proprietors of town of Lincoln, authorizing Col. Robt. B. 
Latham, third proprietor, to have town platted and surveyed and to 
sell lots.
<bibl default='NO'>Lawrence B. Stringer, ed., <title>History of Logan County</title>, 2 vols. (Chicago: Pioneer Publishing Co., 1911), 1:567-68; William H. Herndon Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-08-25'>Thursday, August 25, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has his buggy repaired ($1).
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-08-29'>Monday, August 29, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
First sale of lots takes place in new town. Ninety are sold at prices 
ranging from $40 to $150. [According to tradition Lincoln is present. 
At noon he purchases two watermelons and carries one under each arm 
to public square. There he invites Latham, Hickox, and Gillette, 
proprietors, to join him, saying, "Now we'll christen the new town."]
<bibl default='NO'>Lawrence B. Stringer, ed., <title>History of Logan County</title>, 2 vols. (Chicago: Pioneer Publishing Co., 1911), 1:568-69.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1853-08-30'>Tuesday, August 30, 1853.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Register and Illinois Journal announce that Lincoln
  will speak on "Colonization" at First Presbyterian Church this evening. "The
  subject is of deep interest and growing magnitude," says Register, "and well
  worthy of consideration on the part of all good patriots and well-wishers of
  humanity. . . . The subject and the speaker are both attractive. Let them meet
  with an appreciative audience." </p>
      </div2>